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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The point at which a character understands his/her situation as it really is.






2. A short saying with a moral.






3. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






4. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






5. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.






6. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.






7. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






8. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.






9. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






10. A character struggles against some outside force.






11. The organizational form of a literary work.






12. The main character of a literary work.






13. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






14. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






15. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






16. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






17. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






18. What a story or play is about.






19. The person who 'tells' the story.






20. A pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a seperate stanza in a poem.






21. A four line stanza in a poem.






22. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






23. An interruption of a work's chronology to describe or present an incident that occurred prior to the main time frame of a work's action.






24. The point at which the action of the plot turns in an unexpected direction for the protagonist.






25. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






26. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






27. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






28. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






29. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






30. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






31. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






32. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






33. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






34. A love lyric in which the speaker complains about the arrival of the dawn - when he must part from his lover.






35. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






36. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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37. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.






38. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.






39. A poem that tells a story.






40. A concrete representation of a sense impression - a feeling - or an idea.






41. Smaller units of plays that are broken down.






42. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.






43. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






44. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






45. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






46. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






47. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






48. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






49. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






50. The repetition of consonant sounds - especially at the beginning of words.